The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
The New York Star says of the second days
nrocA edinps of the anthors, cnnxantion:
Ex-Governor Bullock Tells How Prohibition
Wosked In Atlanta.

New York Tribune
Ex-Governor Rufus Bullock, of Georgia, who
is big cotton manufacturer of Atlanta. is at the
Fifth-avenue Hotel. He left home some days
ago and has been visiting in New England. but
he has kept pace with the prohibition agitation
in his State, and talked freely yesterday about
the result. Among other things he said:
''The defeat of prohibition has left the way
open for practical temperance. There has been
no prohibition under the prohibition law that
has been in force in Atlanta. 1t made liars and
hypocrites out of young mon. It drove a whole
sale business. that amounted to q million and
half year, out of Atlanta 1t did not lessen
drunkenness 1t was a sham and farce. / am
in favor of high hcense-the higher the better.
/ have no interest in saloons. don't rent any
buildings for saloons. don't drink in than. 1
don't think was ever in one in Atlanta. But /
know that prohib ition miserable failure.
What 1 advocate is license restriction and
system of inspection by which the purity of
liquors NAV be assured.
'1UDder our prohibition law it customary
for young men who otherwise would not have
thought of drinking. st most of more than
taxing a single glass. to get together Satur-
day night in groups, buy jug of whisky, and
make Sunday carouse out of it. It was the
forbidden fruit, and consequently they were
bound to have it. The saloon-kespers really in
creased their Gales An old darby who worked
fer me showed me how that came about He
voted dry two years ago. This time he told me
he was going to vote wet He said that before
prohibition went into effect he got his glass of
liquor. paid his nickel. and thought more
about it. Under prohibition he bought jugful.
up the rest. He declared that prohibition
too expensive for him. There is question
but that drinkers all found it So"
''How did the colored men vote!"
1.-TWO years ago they voted for prohibition.
II was new thing with them then. and they
thought they must have it because it new.
This time they voted wet The from
Africa in great demand in Atlanta cleo
ton time drew The division in The At
Ianta Constitution Office between Howell and
Grady fair example of how prohibition
worked in families and firms Society and bust
ness all divided by it. The division made
the colored mans vote sure to be counted. He
was coddled by the women, coaxed and driven
by the men. It is an anomaly that the very
illness OF which the Southerners used to the
Abolitionists should first come practically into
effect in the South in Atlanta The finest ladies
in the city, who once denounced the Abolition
lists for wanting to associate with negroes. flied
the prayer ceilings side by side with their black
washsrwomen. handed out lunches TO the
black men advocating prohibition. They held
prayer lettings that lasted from o'clock Fri
day until the same hour Saturday, and were
otherwise quite much like cranks as the
Aboiiifonists they once denounced. Substitute
whisky for negro and they duplicated every
thing Massachusetts ever did against slavery"